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Week of Events
Symposium “BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA”
The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at UCSB is excited to invite you to our upcoming symposium, BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA, which will take place on January 24-25 at UCSB. Attached to […]
Free
January 23, 2019
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“Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America”
“Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America”
"Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America" — History Department Gender and Sexualities Cluster Interactive talk with Dr. Leila Rupp, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Leila Rupp, Department of Feminist Studies, will talk about the process of designing and co-hosting a podcast, "Queer America," sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching […]
January 23, 2019
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Talk by Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “The Layered Landscapes of Hebei and Guangxi: Mao-era History and the COnstruction of China’s Agricultural Heritage”
Talk by Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “The Layered Landscapes of Hebei and Guangxi: Mao-era History and the COnstruction of China’s Agricultural Heritage”
Chinese scientists, scholars, and state officials are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve "agricultural heritage." But what is agricultural heritage and how does it relate to a "people's history" of agriculture? This talk will focus on two sites where the PRC state is actively seeking to promote and preserve agricultural heritage. Both sites […]
January 26, 2019
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UCSB History Associates: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life”, talk with Jane De Hart and Laura Kalman
UCSB History Associates: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life”, talk with Jane De Hart and Laura Kalman
Please join us for a talk by Jane Sherron De Hart, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on her new biography, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. It is the first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the deepest and most profoundly transformative legal minds […]